Growl Notify not working - Here's a new tip

For those mac users who have not encountered Growl.  It is a notification app which let apps display notifications to you, like if you have a new mail, it will open a little box on the corner of the screen showing the contents of an email, or if you are downloading a document with FileZilla it will display a notification to you when it has downloaded.  Its the first 3rd party app that gets installed on my mac when I re-image it.  It was free, but now they have put it up on the Mac App Store with a cost of 69p

One annoyance though with the new version is that GrownTunes doesn't work anymore.  It used to pop up a notification with the latest song information on it.  But don't worry, there is now a little 'tweek' in OSX Lion that lets you add notification into the dock.  This only works on OS X 10.7 Lion.

Open Terminal and type the following statements

  • defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE (press enter)
  • defaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool TRUE (press enter)
  • killall Dock (press enter)

Simple.  Everytime iTunes changes songs now, you'll get a little notification over your itunes dock icon with details of the song.  I can't take credit for this discovery though, I found it at macosxhints.com.

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